Elite Street: Roe Conn sells Lincoln Park home

WLS-AM afternoon co-host Roe Conn has sold his five-bedroom, 5,500-square-foot brick and limestone mansion in Lincoln Park for $2.59 million.

As Elite Street reported in September, Conn, who co-hosts with Richard Roeper the 2-6 p.m. shift on WLS-AM each weekday, listed the mansion in September for $2.88 million. He later cut his asking price to $2.7 million.

Conn, 49, did not return a request for comment, and his listing agent, Millie Rosenbloom of Baird & Warner, also declined to comment.

Conn bought the three-story mansion for $2.5 million in 2006 from its builder. Features include a three-story window on one side, a second-floor master suite with a spa bath, and a rec room and theater on the lower level.

Former TV chief Joe Ahern sells in Barrington Hills

Joe Ahern, former general manager of two Chicago television stations during a 23-year period, sold his four-bedroom, 5,740-square-foot mansion in Barrington Hills for $1.91 million.

Ahern was the boss at WLS-Ch. 7 from 1985 to 1997 and then oversaw WBBM-Ch. 2 from 2002 until his ouster in 2008. For the past few years, Ahern has been CEO of the 100 Club of Chicago, which provides support for surviving spouses and dependents of fallen law enforcement officers and firefighters in Cook County.

Ahern bought the 5-acre property in 2003 for $782,500, razed an existing house and, in 2005, constructed the farmhouse-style home. Features include 5 1/2 baths, a great room with a floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace, kitchen with a breakfast room and a butler's pantry, study, master suite with a walk-in closet and see-through fireplace, four-car garage, and an English basement with a fireplace, wine cellar and theater.

Outside are gardens, two grassy pastures and a barn with matched architectural details, a tack room and eight stalls.

Ahern listed the house in 2010 for $2.8 million and reduced his asking price to $2.6 million in 2011. He took the house off the market for almost two years before relisting it in April for $2.2 million.

Ahern declined to comment on his reasons for selling the property.

Price of John Hughes' mansion cut by $700K

Last week, the widow of the late filmmaker John Hughes cut the asking price of the couple's 17-room, 11,233-square-foot mansion in Lake Forest by $700,000.

Hughes' widow, Nancy, listed the six-bedroom mansion in October 2011 for $5.9 million. She took the mansion off the market before relisting it in January 2013 for $5 million. At the end of 2013, Nancy Hughes again pulled the mansion off the market and relisted it Feb. 6 for $4.3 million.

Built in 1930 and designed by architect Edwin Hill Clark, the three-story mansion has six full baths, four half-baths and six fireplaces. Ann Lyon of Coldwell Banker remains the listing agent.

Shortly after her husband's death in 2009, Nancy Hughes paid $5.2 million for a 6,700-square-foot English country-style mansion about three blocks away.